Springwise.com — an on-line entrepreneurial forum — has selected what it considers the top 10 marketing- and advertising-related articles in the last 12 months, complete with links to each article.

The #1 Idea: A ‘Be Disloyal’ Card campaign. “The Be …

Ever feel like some of your customers are as difficult to deal with as toddlers? Inc.com contributor Tom Searcy compares dealing with pushy customers to dealing with children in his article “Customer Service: How to Handle Pushy Customers.”  The wrong …

Professional indoor tanning facilities do a better job teaching the correct usage of chemical sunscreen than “sun scare” groups who manufacture and mass-market the product, according to the International Smart Tan Network. Our position is based on the following:

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Tanning business clients are making fewer salon visits than they did in 2010, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in May — another indication that success models for tanning businesses are evolving.

According to the latest poll, 48 percent of …

While it is beyond dispute that sun exposure to the skin is the natural, intended and most-efficient source of vitamin D production, dermatology’s leaders continue to suggest that nature was wrong by promoting vitamin D supplements to the exclusion of …

Do you want your customers to take advantage of your loyalty or rewards programs, but customers aren’t getting on board? Here’s a 60 second video from Entrepreneur.com that may help you find the solution to that problem.

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Facing an avalanche of pro-sun and vitamin D reports challenging their unnatural sun-scare dogma, ‘Sun Scare’ doctors in this year’s crop of anti-tanning stories and lobbying efforts have stooped well beyond spin and are simply misstating facts to make reports …

Participating in local events is better for small businesses than national TV coverage according to Carol Tice’s Entrepreneur.com article, “Forget Reality TV. Business Owners Benefit from Local Contests.”

Local events that mimic the reality show format can be just as, …